David Hockney Painting Sells for $90 Million, Smashing Record for Living Artist
The trend toward broadening tastes at auction picked up steam at Christie’s with the Hockney and new highs for works by two African-American artists.
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The trend toward broadening tastes at auction picked up steam at Christie’s with the Hockney and new highs for works by two African-American artists.
The prime minister, who took office with the sole aim of negotiating her country’s withdrawal from the European Union, may not stay in power long enough to finish the job.
A delicious new musical about Broadway narcissists, Indiana homophobes, the possibility of accommodation — and zazz.
Step inside the mind of one of America’s great virtuosos, thanks to a vast archive of his personal writings, home recordings and artistic collages.
As president of the N.F.L. Players Association, Eric Winston is up against billionaire owners, the commander in chief and an existential threat to football itself.
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The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 14, 2018, covering November 16, 2018.
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2018William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1931)[†]
William Goldman was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. Among other accolades, Goldman won two Academy Awards in both writing categories: first for Best Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and then for Best Adapted Screenplay for All the President's Men (1976).
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]